
Thanks Sir Clive
A true legend: entrepreneur, slightly eccentric and stereotypically British engineer and genius.
Although I cut my IT teeth on the slightly bigger 370 series IBM, but when the chance of having a computer at HOME came along I rushed out to get the kit form ZX81, having bought a red led dot digital watch from Sinclair late 70s and loving it. I remember the ZX81 being quite amazing at the time for the price and complete with *gasp* a whole 1k ram, although I later bought the fag packet 16k wobbler..
Many many a happy eve typing stuff in from computer mags then waiting with innocent wonder after 'run'ning the prog for the first time... then debugging!
50 years later - still pretty much doing the same, so thanks Sir Clive for helping bring home computing to the masses.
Cheers!